Police said the man was stabbed on Ocean Avenue in Jersey City early this morning. Google Maps

﻿A Jersey City man was treated for multiple puncture wounds
after he was stabbed on Ocean Avenue early this morning, reports
said.

Police responded to the area of Ocean and Claremont avenues
on a report of a street fight shortly after midnight, reports
said.

When police arrived on scene, they spoke to a man and a
woman who said that "nothing happened," police said. The woman told police that
a "crackhead" approached them and began fighting with them, reports state.

The "crackhead" cut the woman and fled into a nearby
building, the woman told police. Police then received a call of a man who had been stabbed
three times and was found in his apartment, police said.

The man, a 44-year-old Ocean Avenue resident, was found in
his bathroom with three lacerations and a significant amount of blood in the
bathroom, reports said.

The man was taken to University Hospital in Newark and
treated for three puncture wounds -- one to his left tricep, one to his left armpit
area, and one to the left side of his upper back, reports said.

Police searched the scene and recovered a knife, police said.No one was arrested following the incident, reports state.

Anyone with information of the incident is asked to call
(201) 547-JAIL.